Maimonides. By David Gellin and Israel Abrahams. (Mac- millan and
Co. 2s. 6d. net.)—This volume makes a worthy beginning for the new venture of the "Jewish Worthies" Series, Maimonides was a very remarkable person, and something of an enigma, which all his biographers and commentators do not make completely plain. He dealt with the eternal problem of reason and faith, and could not move with quite the freedom that is conceded to present-day thinkers. In practice he was a man of much sagacity ; it is not doing him a wrong to say that he had his esoteric and his exoteric forms of expression. Altogether, this accoluit of him, which is the result of a very full and careful study, is a distinctly valuable addition to the history of religious thought. Let us quote an aphorism of his which is curiously appropriate at the present time: "We bear too much of union in these days : let us hear more of union."
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